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The Europhile was speaking at a meeting of the foreign ministers of the Visegrad Group - Slovakia, Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic - who met with EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini to discuss challenges faced by the EU.

Also at the meeting was Polish Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski, who said: “The process of European integration contributes to the security and development of the whole continent.

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“That is why we are sharing our experience from the time of our political transformation [after the collapse of communism], and our accession to both the EU and NATO with the western Balkan countries.”

Several countries in the Balkans region have expressed a desire to join the European bloc but Brussels bigwigs do not appear keen to bring any more countries into the EU for the time being.

Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Macedonia, Albania and Kosovo are all reportedly interested in joining the EU.

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All six countries were represented at the meeting in Warsaw, as well as the Visegrad Group and regional neighbours including Italy, Croatia, Bulgaria, Romania, Slovenia and Greece.

Despite Britain’s vote to quit the crumbling bloc and the uncertainty over the future of other nations in the European Union, it appears several countries are still interested in becoming part of the bloc.

France’s far-right leader, Marine Le Pen, has promised to hold a referendum on the country’s continued membership of the EU should she win the French election next year while in Sweden, the Eurosceptic Swedish Democrats (SD) party have surged to joint-second in the polls, raising questions over whether the country could leave the 28-member bloc.